EXCLUSIVE: Attorney for Ibragim Todashev's Family Divulges Details In FBI Shooting Death

[Purveyor]

TAMPA - Dressed in a black suit, Hassan Shibly, director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, spoke to ABC Action News alone Monday night. Tuesday morning he will be flanked by Abdulbaki Todashev, father of Ibragim Todashev.

Ibragim was shot and killed by FBI agents following a four-hour interrogation on May 22.

"It is never good when an unarmed individual is shot multiple times by FBI agents in his own home after hours of questioning," said Shibly, who was hired by the Todashev family.
Shibly said private investigators hired by Ibragim's family recently found out that the 27-year-old was shot seven times inside his Orlando apartment following lengthy interrogations.

Ibragim, a Russian native, was being questioned about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Boston bombing suspect who was killed in a shootout with police. FBI agents wanted to know if Tsarnaev was connected to three separate murders in the Waltham area.

"Potentially, he may have been shot while on the ground and potentially the bullets might have been in the back of his head," Shibly said.

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[limpyhobbler]

1. This seems to have been an extrajudicial revenge murder.

Thanks to the corporate media for keeping quiet on this, it could make the FBI look bad and aid the enemy.

[msanthrope]

9. Is it so improbable to believe that a person, arrested in two seperate road rage incidents,

and a mixed martial arts fighter, might attempt to attack agents who were about to arrest him? I mean, if you had just been told that you were going down for a triple homicide you thought you had gotten away with, might you try to fight your way out of situation?

If the FBI did wrong, they should be punished appropriately. But so far, there's no evidence they did.

[limpyhobbler]

15. Well they have some explaining to do when they shoot an unarmed man 7 times.

Is this even being investigated by the FBI?

[msanthrope]

18. Absolutely. The preliminary report is done and in the hands of the Florida prosecutor.

http://www.cfnews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2013/8/8/state_attorney_jeff_.html

My understanding is that the FBI wishes to interview the father, but he has declined.

[former9thward]

23. I would say the father is smart.

Perhaps he does not want to be shot seven times after being "interviewed".

[msanthrope]

24. The father has options--he can decline, he can demand that his lawyer be present, etc. He should do

as he feels best.

[limpyhobbler]

2. " The FBI has ordered autopsy results not to be released "

The government always tries to cover up evidence that makes them look good. They don't like to be seen as bragging, they're very bashful.

[Th1onein]

3. Oh, don't worry, the attorney and the kid's family will get a National Security Letter.

That'll shut them up and quiet this whole thing down.

[nashville_brook]

4. jeezus.

[blackspade]

5. Not good.

The FBI is not looking good.

[truedelphi]

6. So in additon to the three people kille dby the bomb, we have

The original suspect, one Sunil Tripathi, 22, a student of Brown University.

We have the elder Tsanaev Brother, and one witness claims she saw him taken out by police.

Then we have the guy in this article, who actually had time to leave the country, and instead of listening to relatives who told him to get out while the going was good, he stayed to clear his name. And apparently his relatives were right. Better alive, although with an American government-destroyed reputation, than dead, said the relatives, who were older and wiser. And he will never get to be either.

We also have three FBI agents who were part of a team that was investigating the bombing - they were killed a short time later when in Virginia on a training mission.

[LisaL]

11. Sunil was never a suspect. Except among "arm-chair detectives" of the internet.

He was depressed. He went missing a month prior to bombing. He has no connection to the bombing whatsoever.

[truedelphi]

28. Thank you for adding that information to the mix.

I noticed a week or so ago that Sunil had been missing for a month before the bombing even occurred, and wondered how it was that some people included him as a victim of the way the "after events" of the bombing occurred.

[msanthrope]

7. I suspect the family has already been told that their violent scion was involved in the Waltham

triple homicide. The DNA on that should be back soon.

They can file a wrongful death suit, but given his prior arrests for rage/assault incidents, plus his apparent self-incrimination in the Waltham murders, they have a hard slog ahead.

[Fawke Em]

8. So, that means the FBI can be judge, jury and executioner?

Really?

[msanthrope]

10. I haven't seen any evidence that they were judge, jury, and executioner. What we know so far is

that there was an agent-involved shooting which resulted in a death.

What surprises me is that the family did not conduct an autopsy. So we know a few facts for certain, until the FBI autopsy is released.

We do know that the suspect in question was arrested twice for rage incidents, and was currently on bail, awaiting trial on one incident.

Everything else is speculation.

[Fawke Em]

12. Have you seen the autopsy photos?

Ibragim was shot, execution-style, in the top of the head.

I fail to see how that was at all necessary.

[msanthrope]

14. There are no autopsy photos of Todashev online. What is available online is

post-autopsy, easily discernible by the stitches in him.

The picture his family is touting of an head shot is a sewed over head contusion. Can you identify that as a bullet wound delivered 'execution style?' Where's the exit, if that's true? Where's the bullet track?

Why didn't the family do an autopsy, and why do they think people are stupid enough to believe that what they are posting online are 'autopsy photos?'

[limpyhobbler]

13. I haven't seen any evidence to suggest this guy was guilty of anything

or did anything to warrant being shot multiple times.

[msanthrope]

16. If you attack agents who are questioning you, then they can and will respond with guns.

Do I think an FBI agent just casually shot this man? No. There's no evidence to point to that.

Is it more probable that a guy on bail for assault tried to assault an investigator? Well, yeah. If you think you might be going down for three murders, you might just try to fight your way out of it....especially if you actually are a fighter.

[former9thward]

25. Where is the evidence the FBI was attacked?

There is none. It is the FBI who shot an unarmed man. They should be providing the evidence. They have not.

[msanthrope]

26. The stitches to the agent's face would indicate something went on---

"While trying to stand up, the agent, who suffered a wound to his face from the table that required stitches, drew his gun and saw Mr. Todashev running at him with a metal pole, according to the official, adding that it might have been a broomstick.

The agent fired several shots at Mr. Todashev, striking him and knocking him backward. But Mr. Todashev again charged at the agent. The agent fired several more shots at Mr. Todashev, killing him. The detective in the room did not fire his weapon, the official said.

Under the F.B.I.’s guidelines, agents can fire a gun at someone if they feel the person is a threat to them or someone else. The episode is being reviewed by a team of F.B.I. investigators who specialize in shootings and by the district attorney in Orlando, the official said.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/05/31/ibragim_todashev_fbi_officials_offer_a_more_detailed_version_of_what_led.html

The preliminary report is in the hands of the Orlando prosecutor, as I cited above. I suspect we will hear more in the coming weeks.

I think the family should have had their own autopsy.

[truedelphi]

27. Meanwhle the people in

The "Craft" outfits have never been questioned.

[Sotf]

17. Ummm

"Potentially, he may have been shot while on the ground and potentially the bullets might have been in the back of his head," Shibly said.

Why don't you know?

[msanthrope]

19. Because apparently the family didn't do their own autopsy. This allows them to wildly speculate

to the stupid CTers, without actually lying.

[Sotf]

20. IOW...

He may have been beaten to death with a fluffy bunny....

Got it...

[msanthrope]

21. Oh no--the dude was shot dead. Without a doubt. But how and why is still

up for grabs.